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Estimating the adult height of a child

I am trying to write a program that takes as input the gender of a child, the height of the mother in inches, and the height of the father in inches, and outputs the estimated adult height of the child in inches. I think I have to use a loop, but not sure. Also getting illegal start type error's and cannot find symbol errors. Here is what I have so far